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With the obstruction. this is so important that he went down to georgia, which is ground zero, to raise, again, the conscience of the country on the attack and assault on voting rights. >> one point at the speech, the president asked, posed the question, do you want to be on the side of dr. king or george wallace? john lewis or conner, abraham lincoln or justin david? my question, was he talking to republicans or democrat holdout theres. >> no. you heard in the speech. he said everyone should vo...

Incarcerated since the middle of january last year awaiting trials that wont start until april or may of this year. and so, that is -- the process is the punishment, but they are political prisoners. they have been denied constitutional rights especially a speedy trial. judges have been signing off on discovery trials. it is really a travesty. >> tucker: may i ask you a question? of those since i know you know the case of so well, you often hear people have committed no violence and are rotting ...

What happened by eliminating the filibuster for other judicial nominees. it was predictable many said that the time would come when the filibuster was taken away even for supreme court nominee. donald trumps three supreme court nominees would not have been confirmed most likely if the filibuster was still in place. and that is part of harry reids legacy as well. he was not apologetic about what he did. in fact, when i interviewed him in 2019 he thought it would be fine to eliminate the filibuste...

It builds up from there. and you know, so far we havent seen any indication that were going after some of the boldface names or the bigger fish that glenn kirschner was talking about. so we havent seen any public investigatory steps. steps that theyre looking at pursuing charges against those type of people. so we know its on the calendar in the cases. we know that we can expect to see a lot more plea deals in the small misdemeanor level cases. it will be more of the same for sometime. but the b...

Its the non-compliance on the part of people like steve bannon and mark meadows. a lot of the ground work is being laid for potential prosecutions for people as high up the food chain as donald trump. but people critically, like ivanka trump and don jr. had director contact with the former president on january 6, but they are also privy to communications, text messages, et cetera, that would lay the foundation from an evidentiary standpoint to be able to prosecute them, maybe as well as other po...

Thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. were grateful. "the beat" with ari melber starts right now. >> welcome to "the beat." i am ari melber. tonight were tracking a new headache for rudy giuliani and a new special report on one of the most pressing issues facing america. its something weve all been working on here on "the beat" to bring you. one of our most detailed reports tonight. so that is coming up. we begin right here, with the president...

Have already shown you. repeatedly defended in the past is an ancient and probably racist obstruction to democracy. >> if the senate republicans continued to abuse the filibuster to prevent this body from acting and the senate must adapt. before, changing the rules is nothing new. >> laura: nothing new. and if all else fails, democrats can always call on big tech to ramp up censorship machine. >> functioning democracy depends upon an informed and educated citizenry, that was thomas jefferson in ...

Individuals who went into the capitol, saying they did that to stop mike pence after hearing donald trump tell them to do that, you know, if you were getting to the obstruction of congress, having those individuals would be key to trying to prove that case. so, why is it that the justice department asks these defense lawyers to include it in the plea deals? is it because these are being aggressive prosecutors? or is there something larger going on? we dont know. >> and its so interesting as the ...

That he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all. if the investigation were to target gop lawmakersings he is the second gop lawmaker and trump ally to receive a letter like this. one was sent to scott perry requesting his cooperation, a request he declined. jordan said he is reviewing the letter. but the committee used his own words against him, reminding him he previously said, quote, he has nothing to hide. paula, a proud boys member pleaded guilty to the january 6th attac...

Obstruction -- hes talking about the filibuster. we must adapt. the senate must evolve like it has many times before. it was designed to evolve and has evolved many times in our history. pretty clear from schumer he wants to see something. from the presidents part, overall the president is in support of schumer. they talk pretty frequently. of course, president biden himself has been inching closer and closer, laura, to really accepting that nothing about voting rights will change unless they ki...